Got a toothache? Try cocaine!

Nov 20, 2025 4:25 PM

Medical history is wild stuff

You’ll grind that toothache away

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Less of a cure, and more of a symptom relief, with bonus.

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I love the one where they wrap a baby in cellophane and the ones for lead paint in a children's room

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My doctor once commented that if Tylenol had to go through the same approval process as exists today in Canada, it would not have passed as it was.

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America was always a country that experimented on people for profit. It's a matter how long they can profit before the govt steps in. Radium

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Coke is a numbing agent that's still sometimes used in eye surgery.

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My buddy did this with a bad tooth ache for two months, just kept applying cocaine as a topical anesthetic because couldn't afford the dentist

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People downvoting when coke has been used if not still being used as an anesthetic for eye surgeries.

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Probably because he was spending all his money on cocaine...

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i prefer heroin

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Coke is a numbing agent that's still sometimes used for eye surgery.

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And benzocaine, and lidocaine, and just straight up cocaine is still used simetimes.

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Right! Why on earth would anyone take a stimulant when they're in pain.

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Cocain is a local anesthetic?!

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Only temporarily, but yeah it'll make you numb as fuck for a few

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No thanks, heroin for me please

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